Andrea Kay at work: Financial struggles can affect family life

1:57 PM,
Aug. 27, 2013

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Andrea Kay
Gannett

Working-class Americans now are less likely to get married, stay married and have children within marriage than those who have college degrees.

That's the conclusion of new research that looks at working- and middle-class men and women and their ability to plan for a future while feeling - as many people do - so anxious about their own survival.

The University of Virginia and Harvard University study called "Intimate Inequalities: Love and Work in a Post-Industrial Landscape," says the decline and disappearance of stable, unionized full-time jobs with health insurance and pensions for ...